Soonpil Kang
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where I am developing an Urban-Resolving Atmosphere Model. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) under the support of the National Academies of Sciences. My work there focused on Spectral Element Methods (SEM) for Atmospheric Flows such as hurricanes and GPU implementation with Professor Frank Giraldo.
I did my Ph.D. in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I worked in the Computational Mechanics group with Professor Arif Masud. My Ph.D. topics include Variational Multiscale Methods (VMS) for Fluid Mechanics, Immersed Boundary Methods (IBM) for Turbulent Flows, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) on Non-matching Meshes, and Non-Newtonian Fluids.
I earned my master’s degree from the Seoul National University (SNU) in Seoul, South Korea in 2009. I worked in Building Structural System Lab. (BSSL) with Professor Hong-gun Park. I also received my bachelor’s in Architectural Engineering from SNU in 2007.
Before beginning my doctorate at UIUC, I worked as a structural engineer in the Research and Technology department in Samsung C&T Corporation from 2009 to 2014.
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